Re: GRUB hard drive load failures on AMI BIOS [Was: Re: "GRUB loading stage1.5" and crash]

[Matt Wilson]

A bit more on this.  It's actually hanging right at the disk system
reset at the top of codestart in asm.S.  If I remove the reset, my
system reboots (and I can't tell exactly where the reboot happens).  I
removed the reset on a Phoenix BIOS based system and everything
continued to work without a problem.

The interesting bit - If I jumper the drive to be a Slave (and that's
the only attached drive), and do a reinstall, GRUB works without much
problem (though there is a slight delay after stage2 loads, things
still come up without the hang).

Cheers,

Matt

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:55:10PM -0400, Matt Wilson wrote:
> Marc, I can confirm that another machine with an AMI BIOS core is
> having exactly the same problem you're having.  Placing GRUB totally
> on a floppy works; you can boot GRUB on the floppy, access the disks
> including the stage1.5 image that fails to load when start.S tries to
> load it when booting from the hard drive.  Booting kernels works from
> the floppy as well.
> 
> It's odd that the int13 extensions work fine when booting grub from a
> floppy, but fail when loading the sector list of stage 1.5.
> 
> Is anyone else with AMI BIOS having problems getting GRUB loaded from
> a hard disk?
> 
> Frank, what BIOS does your PowerEdge 350 have on it?  I'm guessing
> it's Phoenix based, and you would be having Adaptec BIOS problems (not
> AMI problems, as I'm seeing).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Matt
> 
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